This has been my project lately. Replacing chicken noodle soup essentially.

Congee is a big one, seitan or just sweet potato and ginger. Can make with oats if you’re up for eating something more substantial.

Miso soup, optionally seaweed, rice/mung bean noodles, corn, silken tofu depending on what you need to get down.

Savoury oats, so cooked in broth (e.g. miso paste and water) with ginger and whatever else. Oats cooked with water are much lighter and if you’ve been throwing up salty broth can help you get some electrolytes back.

Pearl barley stew in the slow cooker. Tomatoes and other light veg flavours.

Thin white bean soups? Like potato and leak. Make it it a bit watery so it’s less heavy in the stomach.

GL <3 being sick is miserable.

I am not an oatmilk person and I don’t know what a creamer is let alone an oat one.

I made this thick, not like soy milk would be or whatever but like a thin porridge. I worried the oat flavour would carry through too much but it didn’t, was totally fab.

I will keep the leftovers tip in mind.

Oats… they really are the goat. Who knew oats worked in pasta.

vegan theory club defedded world and while I miss some content the quality of commentator went up dramatically. Yeah I see some stuff I disagree with and I’m sure I bother some people too, sometimes accidentally ;) but that place is a fucking cesspit.

I downvote because I disagree.

This is why downvotes are mostly spam lmao. They have more to do with how popular something this than the substance of the post. It is also impossible to distinguish good faith criticism and reactionary suppression.

Yeah, I deliberately chose a flower heavy seed mix. In aus we’re blessed in winter with the wattle blooms and pea flowers but it’s still a fantastic splash of colour and texture during a time that can be a bit wearying.

I tried what was basically a pepper and stock sauce oats, in a mushroom pasta.

It was excellent! although leftovers were quite solid the next morning. You have enlightened me, oh great oatomancer.

Just regulate it.

you wanna be a bank over a certain size? cover 99% of the pop with atms within 15 minutes or w/e

You mistake conflict for confusion.

If someone’s terminal values are opposed to yours you cannot convince them. Sometimes people change core opinions slowly, but almost always by interaction with people close to them (i.e. where they have conflicting drives to uphold or reject an opinion). Internet debate me bro shit is pointless and just poisons spaces.

~11.5 m² for most readers.

I chose 2 spots in the yard that had awful, compacted soil and consequently shitty growth anyway. My reasoning being if I was going to so work somewhere may as well make it somewhere that needed it anyway.

I initially choked the lawn with black plastic, then tilled it a bit, scattered compost and seeds atop. I ringed it in non specific mulch from the local tree lopers, as many trees release growth inhibiting chemicals that might have helped slow the encroaching grass.

After it was established I stopped watering it, and it’s been left alone. I’ll probably need to spread some more compost, and we haven’t had a drought yet where it will likely need life support to save that cycle of seeds.

I mostly wanted to see how low effort unmanaged patches of garden replacing lawn could be. Turns out pretty, if you don’t mind scruffiness.

Let us return to the proud tradition of walled cities.

Aside from the obvious don’t zone floodplains I don’t really know what we’re supposed to do about this. Australians significantly resist densification of cities and don’t plan cities well at all which reenforces that resistance. We’re absurdly highly urbanised but in a sprawling manner.

We can’t really reduce bushfire danger much without massive deforestation so let’s not do that. It’s not really plausible to like build underground and stuff in the regions/rural areas.

There’s stuff we can procedurally get better at but floods and fires aren’t like earthquakes where you can build structures that are basically untouched.

Are we just fucked?

Before doing anything, it’s important to establish the minimum amount of effort we’re allowed to get away with.

fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you

Why do you care more about a painting frame and disrupting a day at the gallery than the likely prospect of entire fucking inhabited islands being submerged? Will you hide in an art gallery when millions of refugees are pounding at your door demanding the entirely reasonable right to resettle in the less ravaged land of the climate ravagers?

What have you done to try target oil execs? How much money have you put on the line paying the legal fees of people that target them? Have you risked your safety and freedom in radical protests?

From what position do you criticise them? What do you see as the likely outcome of the future? Do you see people living like you changing that?

In this time of genocide it’s important that we focus on the core issue: a minority of protestors being outright racists.

If even one Australian feels uncomfortable or is put at risk of violence then that is too far, and the sacrifice of the entire people of Palestine is not a sacrifice too large to prevent that.

Too right, it’s peak “I took acid in highschool brain” but I try learn a lot of my efforts from the forest around me. It’s true that idk you’ll get a straighter, larger, and more vigorously flowering banksia or something if you feed the shit out of it and plant it in ideal conditions and so on. Yet there’s loads of examples of old twisted and gnarled survivors subsiting off whatever nutrients filter through to a crack in a boulder and and whatever sunlight filters down to it through the canopy.

I guess I should be less afraid to mess around with hydro in a similar way. The context I’ve always run into in is either intensive ag or stoners optimising the shit out of weed to create some plant that comatoses you if you smell it. That’s probably biased me to think it has to be really carefully managed or it wont work, and yet outside of like engineering and chemical synthesis I don’t think I’ve encountered much where that’s actually true.

You’ve inspired me to care a bit less and just have a go haha. Thanks :)

Gardening is sort of my coping strategy after burning out of a very high pressure and fast paced technical career. One of the things I enjoy about dirt growing is that because an entire ecosystem is supporting you it works fine tackled entirely intuitively.

We do have a bunch of outdoors that’s just concrete slab though, I’ve wanted to put intensive things like brassicas that you want basically all year round, or plants that are very sensitive to irregular watering (probably my problem with squash family stuff). The fussiness of hydro has put me off a bit, like even kratky needs topping up after a string of 35 degree shade temp days (although foil on the outside or doing it in styro might help there. But ahhh see! evil intrusive thoughts of optimisation!).

You’re right about the benefits, particularly for veganic growing. I use insect netting extensively but if ants bring aphids in there’s little I can do manage that, or crickets tunnel in and so on, so we often share a lot of what we grow haha. Realistically it’s probably less daunting than it is in my head, especially if I throw some basic automation with timers or whatever on.

My wife had an abortive interest in hydro and we have the stuff for kratky. Some wins might rekindle her interest, which might lead to more hard to dirt grow veggies later!

What hydro method are you using? The lazy one where the water just gets used up (kranksy or something)?

I’ve had rotten luck with squash family stuff getting fungal infections and aphid infestations when I’ve tried in dirt. Although my neighbours grow great ones. If if they do well in hydro that might be the ticket.

Are you asking if it’s practicable to avoid everything that contains vegetable oil, as that may contain palm oil? Because, no, I wouldn’t consider that practicable.

No, as per my post

So I recommend that unless you have specific knowledge, if anything has a thick texture at room temp and claims not to be hydrogenated you should assume it is palm oil. Especially if it’s quite low in saturated and polyunsaturated fats which is a bit of a coconut oil tell.

I agree with the vegan society that systemic change is needed. I am actually broadly a defender of the theoretical goodness of palm oil but global economic issues coupled with crap regulation make it very much not a great thing to use at the moment. There are no rules, the only person following you around in life and judging what you do is you. If you buy and use nuttlex because you saw it as an ethical option that minimises animal harm then, like me, knowing it has palm oil and they didn’t tell you because they think you’re a sucker might change that impression.

It’s an oily spread to make sandwiches tastier, there are other options. Shit you can straight up not use it, there is a non palm oil version sold by the same company.

“Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.”

Is it practicable to avoid palm oil farmed via rainforest clearing in favour of not having oil or using oils farmed in less harmful ways?

it is absurdly reductive to reduce veganism to the presence of animal products. That would imply animal testing of plant based products is vegan.